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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2008 20:35:53 GMT -5
Jeyne's venom faded into silence. It seemed that she had wanted to say that for a long time, and now she leaned against the peach tree, looking tired and unhappy, her mouth a tight line. "I tried to do my duty too," she said sadly. "I suppose duty is not enough to make a marriage."
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Post by The Smith on Oct 9, 2008 20:40:12 GMT -5
Rickon nodded, "You are going home then? I think I will to. Go North."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2008 20:55:48 GMT -5
"I don't know," Jeyne said slowly. "Going home will mean living a shadow of a life, as my mother did for decades in Casterly Rock - the half invisible Lannister that nobody cares about anymore. I don't want to be Lady of the Rock, I'm not a queen...I don't fit in anywhere anymore. Maybe I should just...join a motherhouse or something. At least I'm good at charity."
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Post by The Smith on Oct 9, 2008 21:00:38 GMT -5
Rickon shrugged, "That is your decision, my wife. We will now steer our own lives."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2008 21:03:32 GMT -5
Jeyne removed her gold wedding ring, with its diamond and ruby glinting. "We had a fairytale wedding," she said softly, looking at the ring. "There were...small occurences...but it was a beautiful wedding. Many said nobody in the realm had ever seen anything like it."
She set the ring down gently on the bench, and gazed at it for a long moment. "Where did it go wrong?"
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Post by The Smith on Oct 9, 2008 21:07:43 GMT -5
Rickon shrugged, "I do not know. But it did." He removed his own ring, and placed it next to hers. "I need to get out of this city. It has always made my skin crawl, and now it seems much worse."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2008 21:09:39 GMT -5
Jeyne nodded, standing back and straightening herself. "Good bye, Rickon," she said gravely. "May the Seven watch over you, guide you and protect you, where ever you go in life."
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Post by The Smith on Oct 9, 2008 21:11:24 GMT -5
Rickon nodded, "I do not have the words for how I feel, so I will borrow yours." He bowed and turned already walking away.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2008 21:18:23 GMT -5
Jeyne almost asked him what his own words would have been, but she held her tongue. This chapter was over. She should have felt elated, but all she felt was a dull sense of relief...and failure. Her marriage had failed. She had failed.
She stood alone under the peach tree for a long while. She watched her husband walk away and disappear, and then gazed at the two golden rings on the bench. You're free now, they told her. Free of her position in society, free of her mother's ambitions for her, of Uncle Cedric's rules and the hovering Kingsguard and maesters breathing down her neck. She would never be asked to bear children to a man she didn't love...nobody would bother her ever again.
"Yes, I'm free," Jeyne said under her breath. It lifted the weight on her heart a little, when she heard those words.
She gently took the two gold rings in her hand and buried them in the dirt, underneath the branches of her favorite peach tree. She closed up the hole, and patted the earth flat. Then she turned, and walked away. I'm free.
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Hope you all are well and happy.